Saturday, May 9, 2026

Amazing Chinese Characters (795) Urgently - 亟

Shell bone script of character Urgently is

The middle is character Human

The up horizontal line is the top of the head, the extreme point in up direction. The bottom horizontal line is the foot, the extreme point in down direction.

It means the extreme of some thing. 

Bronze script of character Urgently is

The middle is similar to shell bone script. But there is a character Mouth on the left, and the character 攴, which means Knock lightly, normally it means that some one is working. The middle is a person with stretched, which is physically, adding Mouth, and Working, the character expresses not just physical, but tasks related to mental, and physical, such as projects in working place, which are urgently needed to be completed.  Mouth could mean talking, arranging, managing, etc. 攴 means physical work. 

Big seal script of character Urgently is

Similar to bronze script.

Small seal script of character Urgently is

Similar to script of bronze and big seal scripts.

Clerical script of character Urgently is 

The middle became 了- character Over (Post 335), which is wrong due to 了 has similarity to small seal script of character Urgently, but they are not the same if we look carefully, the meanings are different too.

The character is not used alone now, only found in the articles written long time ago.  

 

Amazing Chinese Characters (795) Urgently - 亟

Shell bone script of character Urgently is The middle is character Human The up horizontal line is the top of the head, the extreme point in...